The first thing you should do is choose a Willpower System that you can use that will help you start eating whole foods.

Willpower System Layering #1 – CREATE A WHOLE FOODS EATING PLAN

Studies have shown that when you have a specific eating plan and you make it visible, it will increase your ability to stick to your plan.

Here’s an example of my own eating plan. The “1-5” represents 1 big meal a day and 5 much smaller meals or snacks.

Willpower System Layering #2 – SHOP WITH A SHOPPING LISTNow that you have a meal plan, you can create a shopping list. When you do into the grocery store, stick to the shopping list.

If you’re eating healthy, you’ll never or rarely enter an isle in the middle of the store. All the food you’ll be shopping for is on the outside walls of the grocery story.

Willpower System Layer #3 – START A PHOTO FOOD JOURNAL

In a study published in 2008 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon, found that among 1,700 individuals in a weight-loss program , those who kept daily food journals lost TWICE AS MUCH WEIGHT as those who didn’t.